Recently, pork with marbling has received attention as good quality pork and scientists are required to develop methods to produce pork with reasonable amounts of intramuscular fat (IMF). The aim of this review is to describe studies relevant to promotion of IMF accumulation in porcine muscle by nutritional regulation. The main focus is on effect of dietary lysine levels. First, we found dietar...

In the modern pork industry, selection of high intramuscular fat (IMF) in pigs is necessary to improve pork quality. Ultrasound has been used previously to predict subcutaneous fat thickness and IMF in the longissimus muscles of line pigs and Real-time ultrasound has also been reported as a reliable method for estimating IMF in live pigs. So we estimate the correlation between meat quality trai...

The intrinsic mode function (IMF) provides adaptive function bases for nonlinear and non-stationary time series data. A fast convergent iterative method is introduced in this paper to find the IMF components of the data, the method is faster and more predictable than the Empirical Mode Decomposition method devised by the author of Hilbert Huang Transform. The approach is to iteratively adjust t...

Do policy conditions attached to International Monetary Fund (IMF) lending programmes have an impact on government health expenditure in developing countries? Yes, according to a large body of literature (see Kentikelenis, 2017), and our recent article (Stubbs et al., 2017). We systematically reviewed IMF loan agreements and staff reports to generate a database of “binding” conditions that coul...

We summarize recent observational and theoretical progress aimed at understanding the origin of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) with specific focus on galactic star–forming regions. We synthesize data from various efforts to determine the IMF in very young, partially–embedded stellar clusters and find: i) no significant variations in the low–mass IMF have been observed between different...

To determine the role of intramitochondrial protein synthesis (PS) and degradation (PD) in contractile activity-induced mitochondrial biogenesis, we evaluated rates of [(35)S]methionine incorporation into protein in isolated rat muscle subsarcolemmal (SS) and intermyofibrillar (IMF) mitochondria. Rates of PS ranged from 47 to 125% greater (P < 0.05) in IMF compared with SS mitochondria. Intense...

We review our current knowledge on the IMF in nearby environments, massive star forming regions, super star clusters, starbursts and alike objects from studies of integrated light, and discuss the various techniques used to constrain the IMF. In most cases, including UV-optical studies of stellar features and optical-IR analysis of nebular emission, the data is found to be compatible with a “un...

The goal of this paper is to examine whether IMF lending programs in the MENA region lead international lenders to perceive lower lending risks and generate moral hazard as reflected in a shift in the maturity composition of international debt toward long-term debt flows. We find that IMF credit in general generated moral hazard in MENA after the IMF large-scale rescue package to Mexico. The go...

Idiopathic myelofibrosis (IMF) typically presents with marrow fibrosis, splenomegaly, progressive anemia, and a leukoerythroblastic blood smear with dacryocytes. We present a patient with IMF who did not have dacryocytes.

The stellar IMF has been found to be essentially invariant. That means, any detailed observational scrutiny of well resolved populations of very young stars appears to show the IMF to be of more or less the same shape independent of the metallicity and density of the star-forming region. While some apparent differences are seen, the uncertainties inherent to this game do not allow a firm conclu...